Euthanasia Originally, the term "physician assisted suicide" meant the provision by a physician of the means of which a suffering, terminally ill patient could initiate his or her death. The "euthanasia" means the killing of a terminally ill person to end his or her suffering. Now, by practice, the term "physician assisted suicide" has been expanded in meaning to include the administration of a lethal substance by a physician to a suffering patient-a form of euthanasia. Thus, physician assisted ...

Introduction The history of physician-assisted suicide began to emerge since the ancient time. Historians and ancient philosophers especially had been debating over this issue. Thus, this issue is no longer new to us. However, it seems little vague because it has not yet been fully told. The historical story consists of patterns of thought, advocacy, and interpretation on whether to legalize assisted death. 'Only until June, 1999, the United States Supreme Court issued decisions in two cases tha...

Physician-Assisted Suicide Physician-assisted suicide happens when a person commits suicide with the help of a physician. A physician supplies information and the means of committing suicide to a person so that they can easily terminate their own life. The physicians do this either by a prescription for lethal dose of sleeping pills or a supply of carbon monoxide gas. The awesome decision to live or die belongs not to the courts, to attorneys, to hospitals, to doctors, to nurses, or to any other...

The issue of physician-assisted suicide has come to be one of the most controversial legal issues in recent history. In my opinion I think that the law is designed to lay out guidelines for the social conduct of individuals in society. Yet, within this definition there are extremes on both ends of the spectrum in which the law encompasses. The question of whether or not physicians can legally prescribe and administer lethal doses of medication to mentally competent patients who suffer from the i...

The natural end of every human life is death. Some people, for reasons that have never been fully understood, choose to end their own lives. This act is called suicide, which means literally "self-killing". The English physician and writer Sir Thomas Browne once commented: "Not to be content with life is the unsatisfactory state of those who destroy themselves". For all the uncertainty that has surrounded the phenomenon of suicide, his assessment of the problem is probably as accurate as any. Th...

Physician-assisted suicide occurs when a physician helps a person take his or her own life by giving advice, writing a prescription for lethal medication, or assisting the individual with some device which allows the person to take his or her own life. The physician lends expertise, but the person does the act. I think that there are many arguments against it. Firstly, there is the old case that all human life is sacred. Not animal life maybe, but all human life is a sacred thing and it's not fo...

My Ethical Views on Physician Assisted Suicide Physician assisted suicide is immoral in the case of people who are alive and desire to terminate their life. However, there are extreme cases when hastening the dying process is justified in the circumstances of individuals who are in intense physical impairment. Physician-assisted suicide is defined as the practice where a physician provides a patient with a lethal dose of medication, upon the patient's request, which the patient desires to use to...

Physician assisted suicide in terminally ill patients, that decision is final; there is no turning back once that decision has been carried out. If you take out the emotion and just sit down with the hard truth and facts, then I am for physician-assisted suicide. Someone is suffering and prolonging the inevitable, death. I don't think that every patient would choice death over life, but it should be a safe and monitored option. When factoring in emotion and ethics then I am against physician-ass...

Assisted Suicide Originally, the term physician assisted suicide meant the provision by a physician of the means by which a suffering, terminally ill patient could initiate his or her death. The term euthanasia means the killing of a terminally ill person to end his / her suffering. Now, by practice, the term physician assisted suicide has been broadened in meaning to include the administration of a lethal substance by a physician to a suffering patient a form of euthanasia. Therefore, physician...